IMProving older people’s health through physical ACTivity: the implementation of a community-based framework to promote park-based active ageing
Pazit Levinger, Marcia Fearn, Bronwyn Dreher, Adrian Bauman, Sze-Ee Soh, Natasha K Brusco, Andrew Gilbert, Rachel Muoio, Elissa Burton, Keith Hill · 2025
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Description
Pazit Levinger and co-authors report a 2025 project that used a park based framework to get older people more active in Victoria, Australia. Parks with age friendly exercise equipment are a lasting, low cost way to promote activity. Yet older adults need a reason and a path to use them. The project worked across six communities and six public parks.
Councils ran a nine month program built on training, engagement, resources, and marketing, after a three month control phase. Observers counted park users and their activity, and surveys asked older users about their health and habits. More than twelve thousand visitors were counted in all, and about fifteen percent were older people. After the program, the number of older park users taking part in activity was about four times higher. A three month maintenance phase followed.
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| CREATOR | Pazit Levinger, Marcia Fearn, Bronwyn Dreher, Adrian Bauman, Sze-Ee Soh, Natasha K Brusco, Andrew Gilbert, Rachel Muoio, Elissa Burton, Keith Hill |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |